Sarah Gerathy reports: Consumer rights advocates say ANZ bank employees may have breached privacy laws and the Trade Practices Act when they allegedly used Facebook to gather customers’ information. It is alleged that someone in the bank’s debt collection team secretly set up a fake Facebook profile. Using this false identity, they then befriended ANZ…
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Contest Unlocks 3.1B Personal Records to Developers
From a press release: At the height of the online privacy debate, DataRockit, a leader in data services technology, is opening up its 3.1B criminal, consumer, sex offender and real estate records for an application development contest. Launching today, with TechCrunch Disrupt, the contest challenges developers to construct an application that utilizes the database records…
Facebook likely headed to court over privacy concerns, critics say
Sarah Schmidt reports: Facebook likely will be hauled before a federal judge in Canada by the fall for thumbing its nose at the country’s privacy watchdog, online privacy experts predict. The furor over privacy settings and how the social networking shares personal information with outside companies has been growing for the past few months, with…
Rockefeller introduces Senate online privacy bill
Kevin McKeefery reports: Sen. John Rockefeller (D-WV) introduced the Restore Online Shoppers’ Confidence Act, a bill that aims to curb sales tactics used by third-party online affiliates such as Affinion, Vertrue and Webloyalty. Rockefeller introduced the bill May 19, shortly after the US Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation released a staff report outlining…